MANNERISM & PERSONALITY TRAITS
1. You point with your lips.
2. You eat using your hands and have it down to a technique!
3. Your other piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
4. You nod your head upwards to greet someone.
5. You put your foot up on your chair and rest your elbow on your knee
while eating.
6. You use a rock to scrub yourself in the bath or shower.
7. You have to kiss your relatives on the cheek as soon as you enter the
room.
8. You're standing next to eight boxes at the airport.
9. You collect items from the hotels or restaurants "for souvenirs's
sake."
10. Your house has a distinctive aroma.
11. You smile for no reason.
12. You scratch your head when you don't know the answer.
13. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.
14. You use umbrella for shade on hot summer days.
15. You flirt by having a foolish grin on your face while raising your
eyebrows repeatedly.
16. You never eat the last morsel of food on the table.
17. You go bowling (duckpin or otherwise).
18. You play pusoy & mah jong.
19. You find dried up morsels of rice stuck to your shirt.
20. You prefer to sit in the shade instead of basking in the sun.
21. You add an unwarranted "H" to your name (i.e., "jhun"," "bhoy." )
22. You put your hands together in front of you as if to make a path and
say "excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of TV.
23. Your middle name is your mother's maiden name.
24. You like everything that's imported or "state-side."
25. You check the labels on clothes to see where it was made.
26. You are perfectly comfortable in a squatting position with your
elbows resting on your knees.
27. You hang your clothes out to dry.
28. You consistently arrive 30 minutes or later for all events.
29. You always offer food to all your visitors.
VOCABULARY
30. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom".
31. You say "for take out" instead of "to go".
32. You say "open" or "close" the lights.
33. You ask for "Colgate" instead of toothpaste".
34. You ask for a "pentel pen" or a "ball pen" instead of just a pen.
35. You refer to the refrigerator as the "ref" or "pridyider".
36. You say "kodakan" instead of "take a picture".
37. You order a "McDonald's" instead of a "hamburger" (pronounced
ham-boor-jer).
38. You say "Ha?" instead of "what?"
39. You say "Hoy!" to get someone's attention.
40. You answer when someone says "Hoy!"
41. You turn around when someone says "Psssst!"
42. You say "Cutex" instead of "nail polish".
43. You say "for a while" instead of "please hold" on the phone.
44. You say "He" when you mean "She" and vice versa.
45. You say "aray!" instead of "ouch!"
46. You sneeze sounds like "ahh-ching" instead of "ha-choo".
47. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as O-A" for overacting,
"D-O-M" for dirty old man and "T-N-T" for, well, you know.
48. You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner.
49. You pronounce the following words: "hippopo-Ta-mus",
"com-For-table", "bro-Co-li", and "Mongo-mery Ward".
50. You say "Brown-out" instead of "black-out".
51. You say "Uy!" instead of "Oops".
HOME FURNISHING:
52. You use walis tambo and a walis ting-ting as opposed to a
conventional broom.
53. You have a "Weapons of Moroland" shield hanging in your living room
wall.
54. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room
wall.
55. You own a karaoke system.
56. You own piano that no one ever plays.
57. You have a "Tabo" in the bathroom.
58. Your house is cluttered with "burloloys".
59. You have two to three pairs of "tsinelas" at your doorstep.
60. Your house has ornate wrought iron gates in front of it.
61. You have a rose garden.
62. You display a laughing Buddha for good luck.
63. You have a shrine to the Santo Nino in your living room.
64. You own a "Barrel Man" (shwing!).
65. You have Christmas lights and a parol hanging outside your house all
year long and turned on only for holidays.
66. You cover your living room furniture with bedsheets.
67. Your lampshades still have the plastic covers on them.
68. You have plastic runners to cover the carpets in your house.
69. You refer to your VCR as the "Beta-Max".
70. You have a rice dispenser.
71. You own a turbo broiler.
72. You own one of those fiber-optic flower lamps.
73. You own a lamp with the oil that drips down the strings.
74. You have a giant wooden fork & spoon hanging in the dining room.
75. You have a wooden tinikling dancers on the wall.
76. You own capiz shell chandeliers, lamps, or placemate.
AUTOMOBILES:
77. You own a Mercedes Benz and call it
"chedeng".
78. You own huge van conversion.
79. Your car chirps like a bird or plays a tune when it's in reverse.
80. Your car horn can make three different sounds.
81. You hang a rosary, a Santo Nino, or any other religous figure on
your car's rear view mirror.
82. You touch the rosary or religious figure right before you drive.
83. You have those air fresheners in a bottle.
FAMILY:
84. You have aunts and uncles named "Baby,"Girlie," or "Boy".
85. You were raised to believe that every Filipino is an aunt, uncle, or
cousin.
86. A male relative is/was in the navy.
87. A female relative is/was a nurse.
88. You get "smelling kisses" from your grandma.
89. Your parents call each other "mommy" and "daddy".
90. You have family member that has a nickname that repeats itself
(i.e., "Leng-Leng", "Jing-Jing", or "Bong-Bong".)